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Article: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2007
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. By Doris Kearns Goodwin. (New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 2005. Pp. xix, 916. $35.00.)
Given the vast scholarly and popular literature that treats Abraham Lincoln and his times, one would think that there would be little left to discover about the man. And it is true that the main point of Doris Kearns Goodwin's book--that Lincoln fearlessly harnessed the energies and political capital of his chief rivals in the Republican Party in a united effort to preserve the Union--is well known among historians of the period. Yet the book has many virtues and can be--and should be--read for profit by historians ...